Review

In a way, being on the outside looking in is an apt metaphor for experiencing issues around Black hair from a Black woman’s perspective.

No matter what kind of mood her works evoke, they are always intuitive

The work pivots on carefully planned silliness and deceptively poor craft, and this balance of thoughtful and careless gives them an edge.

The exhibition is a luminous, timely exploration of how both artists find the sublime in the close observation of nature.

"Houston artist Royal Sumikat has done a wonderful job conveying the sense of strife and hope every immigrant faces."

The first solo museum presentation of her career, the show is striking and straightforward, made up of eight acrylic paintings created soon after Jaramillo made the move from Paris to New York City in 1967. 

As tempting as hosting a blockbuster traveling exhibition can be, and given the opportunity to pick works from the dozens available for "30 Americans," an exercise of curatorial restraint on the part of Arlington Museum of Art could have benefited the show.

Nara’s iconic sculpture points toward the opening of one’s senses to the landscape as a way of feeding one’s physical and interior vitality.

The pieces on display illuminate Europeans’ elaborate, often amusing responses to botanicals, and their desire to possess and preserve plants across time and space.

That our built environments should be ephemeral only serves to remind us of our own transience.   

A few words about the artist's newest work on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

This is the Pop Art of Brownsville, Texas — an enigmatic, idiosyncratic place few understand, but where many live.

Martin's elaborate mixed-media technique of painting, printmaking, and sewing creates layers of complex portraiture that demands closer viewing.

This is the gallery’s first solo showing of the Denton-based artist, though her neon and kinetic installations have been widely exhibited in the region and beyond. 

Architectural designer Thomas Rinaldi found exploring historical patents to be a way of unpacking how innovation follows certain trends and design impetuses over time.

There's a meta-conversation happening within Reaves’ work that may not make her the best candidate for this kind of cross-conversational pairing.

It makes sense that many of the current art offerings touch on themes from the pandemic: physical connection, mundane domesticity, and mental health.

Pacifico Silano’s large-scale collages embody the spectrum of queer experience.

La frase “arte popular” es una pequeña pero importante redefinición de la amplia y nebulosa categoría “arte folclórico.”

“It’s a century where artists think very deeply about what drawing is as a concept, but also about materials and how to use them.”